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Not who you're looking for? Others named actress: British electronic musician · 1943 film by Leonid Trauberg · 2014 documentary film by Robert Greene
“Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.”
“The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.”
“I was more intolerant in the days when I said actors were cattle and the director was the herder. Today I prefer to say actors are children and the wise director treats them that way.”
“They wanted to "teach" me to act. But to act is natural. It is ten percent acting and ninety percent being smart.”
“Acting is the most embarrassing business in the world. You never know when you're going to eat.”
“(The) play of limbs succeeds the play of wit.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs), literally "one who answers". The actor's interpretation of a role—the art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art.
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